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Care types

What each provider is licensed or certified to deliver. Different care types answer to different regulators, which is why the rows below are not always comparable.

Licensed capacity

Beds or units on the license. A capacity, not an occupancy.

License status

The status word the state registry uses, reproduced exactly. We do not translate or grade it.

Published rating

Whatever the publishing regulator published, on the scale the regulator used. Nothing here is rescaled to five stars.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold published rating for some of these providers and not for others, and we cannot yet say whether the gap means a clean record or a file we have not read. Treat the difference between these columns as unknown, not as a finding.

Inspection citations

How many citations are on record, and how recent the newest one is.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold inspection citations for some of these providers and not for others, and we cannot yet say whether the gap means a clean record or a file we have not read. Treat the difference between these columns as unknown, not as a finding.

Fines and payment denials

Enforcement actions on record, with the total fine amount where the source publishes one.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold fines and payment denials for some of these providers and not for others, and we cannot yet say whether the gap means a clean record or a file we have not read. Treat the difference between these columns as unknown, not as a finding.

Nurse staffing hours

Payroll-based nurse hours per resident per day, against the median for the same state.

Not a like-for-like comparison. Only some of these providers are covered by a system that publishes nurse staffing hours. The blank column is not a low score. Nobody collects this figure for that kind of provider, so no provider of its kind has one.

Ownership and chain

Who owns the provider, and who runs it when those are different companies.

Not a like-for-like comparison. We hold ownership and chain for some of these providers and not for others, and we cannot yet say whether the gap means a clean record or a file we have not read. Treat the difference between these columns as unknown, not as a finding.

Typical local cost

The published monthly median for this care type in this provider's city. A market figure, never a price quoted by this provider.